As this is a monitored game safety will be high.
Finding the resources and making the game took approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes and I spent 1 hour playing the game with Caitlyn.
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Development
This game would be beneficial to a child of Caitlyn’s age as it would help to develop her memory.
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The tiles I made for this game were a suitable size which made it easy for Caitlyn to handle them.
Organisation
The board was made from a cereal box and the tiles were made from coloured in bits of card. The origami figures were birds. These were placed at each corner and the tiles were stored in the wings.
I arranged to visit Caitlyn, who is nearly four, so that she could play the game.
Outcome
When we played the game we started with two colours, orange and blue. Caitlyn found this easy. I then introduced purple and asked her to find orange first, then purple and lastly blue. This took her slightly longer. Pink was then added and I asked her to find two orange, one purple, one blue and four pinks tiles. This time she had trouble finding the last orange and blue tiles. Yellow was then introduced and Caitlyn chose her own order to find the colours. She did this more quickly. We stopped at five colours as Caitlyn was finding it quite difficult by now.
Evaluation
Caitlyn really enjoyed the game and said that she loved it. It would be difficult to identify any weaknesses. There were no safety issues as the game was monitored.
A strength of the game is that more and more colours can be introduced and the game, in theory, could help to develop the child’s memory.
The game was a success and I have included photographs of the material before the game is made, the finished product and Caitlyn playing the game.